Measuring Hot Aisle Cold aisle containment Efficiency

It's also crucial to determine whether containment has worked; otherwise, there's no justification for the project.

Containment benefits can reverberate throughout a data center. If hot and cold air cannot mix, the air conditioners don't have to work as hard to get cool air to the front of servers. ASP floors also provide specialist products and services which assist the data centre managers to measure power usage and performance.  It is suggested that data centres take a base line measurement of power which compare total facility power with the power used by the IT infrastructure, before and after Cold aisle containment is installed.

It has been proven that cooling costs can be reduced by over 20% with the installation of containment. This also provides long term savings on the following

· Aisle and room temperature and humidity

· Aisle and room air-flows and balancing

· Efficiency of room and building cooling systems

· Life expectancy of your computer hardware (fans, HD etc.)

· Server running times (crashes, freezes etc.)

· “U” Space utilization, install more kit in existing racks

· Power savings on hardware and building facilities

· Significantly reduced building carbon emissions